Features of hemoglobin in stieng minority in Binh Duong province
- Author:
An Minh Hoai Le
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
hemoglobin
- MeSH:
Hemoglobins;
Minority Groups;
Electrophoresis
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;233(2):14-16
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
On studying 147 hemoglobin electrophoresis samples of the Stieng community, we refound that hemoglobin varieties distributed as following: - HbE: 54.45% including HbE homozygous: 6.12%; HbAe: 41.5% and -thal/HbE: 6.8%.- -thal: only -thal/HbE (-thal/HbE: 4.08%, -thal/HbE, 2.72%). -Normal cases: 45.58%. These results shown that HbE ratio is very height in Stieng community, it is necessary to have the special investigations to find out the causes
